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Four states top Apple’s US retail revenue

Apple's retail stores are doing well across the country, but a few states lead …

It's the same old lesson you learned during those group projects in high school: a few breadwinners do all the work, while the rest kinda limp along, doing only as much as they need to. Such is the case with Apple's current retail revenues: a few stores raked in about 45 percent of Apple's nearly $1 billion US retail revenues in the third quarter of 2007.

According to ifoAppleStore, California led a troop of four states (New York, Florida and Texas) that each brought in anywhere from $56 million to California's whopping $185 million. Naturally, California's lineup of 36 Apple Stores probably had a hand in this, as did the other three states having no less than 12 stores each.

At the other end of the scale are states like Alabama, Iowa, and Nebraska, each reportedly with one store and about $5 million each in revenues.

Looking at average store revenues per state paints a different picture. The range between stores is far smaller, with New York at the top with an average of $9 million in revenues, and Nebraska at the bottom with about $2.5 million from its single store.